Another patent showing a curved sensor design from Canon has appeared. A previous patent showed how a curved sensor could help reduce vignetting. This patent shows how to electronically bend the sensor. We’ve now seen a few patents for curved sensor technology, so we expect we’re going to see some sort of implementation in the future. Read more…

Reference View is a new view mode available in the Develop Module that allows you to compare 2 different images in order to make them visually consistent. This is helpful when making a group of images from a single event look similar or setting the white balance appropriately in mixed lighting conditions.

To get started,

Go to the Develop Module

Click on Reference View. Its on the Toolbar, and you may need to show the Toolbar if hidden

Drag and Drop your Reference Photo onto the left pane. You can change your Reference Photo by either dragging a different image onto the left pane or using the “Set as Reference Photo” context menu in the Library Module.

Edit the active photo. Use the Reference Photo to guide your editing decisions.

The-Digital-Picture has completed their review of the Sigma 12-24mm f/4L DG HSM Art.

Image Quality

From the always-important image sharpness perspective, this lens is a very good performer with a caveat that I will of course explain. At f/4, this lens is quite sharp in the center of the frame over the full focal length range aside from performance becoming modestly softer from 20mm through 24mm. Stopping down to f/5.6 brings sharp center of the frame results to the entire focal length range……….

……… I mentioned the caveat. What I didn’t notice during this shoot was focus shift. As this lens is stopped down, the plane of sharp focus shifts farther away. Because Canon cameras focus with a wide open aperture, this change is not accounted for during either viewfinder or Live View-based focusing (AF or MF). Stopped down manual focusing in Live View will account for the change, but … this is not how we typically focus. Read the full review

It looks like Sigma has another winner on their hands with the 12-24mm f/4 DG HSM Art series lens, especially when you factor in the fact it costs about $1000 less than the Canon EF 11-24mm f/4L.

The “official” rebate on the EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II is $150, but B&H currently has a $200 instant rebate on the lens. The “official” rebate on the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II is $200, but B&H currently has a $300 instant rebate on the lens.

The rumormill has gone quiet for the moment, though we expect it to pick up ahead of CPS next month. Below is what we believe we know is coming in 2017, and we expect there are going to be other products as well.

DSLR

Canon EOS Rebel T7s

Release Date: This month or early next month ahead of CES.

Canon EOS Rebel T7i

Release Date: This month or early next month ahead of CES.

Canon EOS 6D Mark II

Release Date: Late spring or early summer 2017.

PowerShot

Canon PowerShot SX70 HS

Release Date: If we had to guess, for CES next month

Canon PowerShot G9 X Mark II

Release Date: Unknown

Lenses

Canon EF-S 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 IS STM II

Release Date: Alongside the new Rebel cameras ahead of CES

Canon EF 85mm f/1.4L IS USM

Release Date: Unknown

A second lens released alongside the Rebels

We’re told there may be an “interesting lens” coming around the same time as the Rebels, we don’t know what that is yet nor can we confirm it would be coming in January.

Cinema EOS

Canon Cinema EOS C100 Mark III

Release Date: Unknown, but NAB would be a logical guess.

Canon Cinema EOS anamorphic lens

We think at least one is coming for NAB in April.

EOS M

We haven’t confirmed any new EOS M cameras or lenses at the time of writing this.

We’ll update the roadmap on a regular basis as we learn more about Canon plans.